RIP: Computer graphics pioneer John Warnock dies at 82

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Pioneer of hidden-line removal, co-inventor of Postscript and PDF, author of Illustrator, and charitable benefactor

I've always liked mathematics; problem solving has always been fun. My saving grace in life is that I was not introduced to computers at an early age. […]

I went through the university, all the way to the master's level, so I got a good, solid liberal education. I believe it's really important to have a very solid foundation in mathematics, English, and the basic sciences. Then, when you become a graduate student, it's okay to learn as much as you can about computers.

If you really want to be successful, being acculturated to the rest of the society and then going into computers is a much more reasonable way to approach the problem. Among other former students, Evans & Sutherland hired the young John Warnock. He later left for a job at Xerox PARC in 1978, where he worked for Chuck Geschke. Together, they worked on a page-description language called Interpress, as described in this

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